locken

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English

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Verb

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locken

  1. (Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) past participle of lock

Adjective

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locken (comparative more locken, superlative most locken)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) Locked.
  2. (Scotland, Northern England) Webbed (of hands or toes).
    locken fingers
  3. (Scotland, Northern England) Stingy, tight-fisted.
    The locken hands do not give much.
  4. (Scotland, Northern England) Knit (of brows), also close-set, contracted.
    She stood there stock-still, her brows locken.
    • 1852, Alex Harper, Fruits of Solitary Hours:
      A leering eye and locken brows, / And large Mongolian mouth and nose.

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German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlɔkn̩], [ˈlɔkŋ̩]
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  • Hyphenation: lo‧cken

Etymology 1

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From Middle High German locken, from Old High German lockōn, from Proto-West Germanic *lokkōn, from Proto-Germanic *lukkōną. Cognate with lügen (to lie), Latin laciō and Slovak lákať (to allure).

Verb

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locken (weak, third-person singular present lockt, past tense lockte, past participle gelockt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to lure, to entice, to tempt
    Wir locken den Feind in eine Falle.
    We're luring the enemy into a trap.
  2. (transitive, impersonal) to be lured
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Etymology 2

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From Old High German lochōn, from Locke (curl). The expected form *lochen was analogically reformed based on the noun.

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locken (weak, third-person singular present lockt, past tense lockte, past participle gelockt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to curl (something)
  2. (reflexive) to curl
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Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch loccon.

Verb

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locken

  1. to lure

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Descendants

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  • Dutch: lokken
  • Limburgish: lókke

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Noun

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locken

  1. definite singular of lock c
  2. definite plural of lock n